Re: "Parkinson's Disease - A New Hope" , Special Report

[nancy <ds401@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Don,

I hope this helps. Maybe it is a semantics difference?  Being labeled
with PD/PD+ for example, is yuck! However, I seem to hear that a person
doesn't die form the disease itself but from he complications of the
disease/illness.  Yeah I know what XX.  I understand.

nancy:)

Don Diswinka wrote:
>
> HI,
>
> > A special report from Harvard Medical School, PARKINSON'S DISEASE  - A NEW
> > HOPE,  by  John E. Growdon, M.D., Director, Memory and Movement Disorders
> > Unit,  Massachusetts General Hospital   Professor of Neurology, Harvard
> > Medical School.
> > Excerpt from flyer I received:
>
> > "Parkinson's is not fatal, but it leads to a variety of functional
> > disabilities.
>
> This is not directed at the person who sent this but, perhaps Dr. John E.
> Growdon might explain more carefully--If Parkinson's is not fatal why so
> many people actually die from it????
>
> Just curious.
>
> Don 51/3 pd+